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Netherlands: more flexible parental leave
More flexible parental
leave. Piet Hein
Donner, Minister for Social Affairs and Labor, wants to bring more flexibility
into leaves for employees who want to care for sick children or parents...
13 October 2009
Sweden: unions want equal pay between men and women to be a priority for the coming wage negotiations
Better compliance with
anti-discrimination laws. Despite an internal study showing a relative improvement in women’s situation,
the federation of private employees’ unions, Unionen, thinks that...
13 October 2009
EU: European and international union federations sign a charter on “sustainable” tourism
The European Trade Union Liaison Committee on Tourism, ETLC – which gathers the EFFAT (European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism trade unions), ETF (European Transport Workers’...
13 October 2009
Lithuania: government and social partners about to sign a far-flung national agreement
Drastic cost-cutting program. Initially, the text was mostly a plan to financially save the State and the social security from 2009 to 2012. it provided for layoffs and new wage cuts (8-10% in...
13 October 2009
Portugal: first mandatory arbitration unfreezes negotiations in paper industry
Regulatory tool. The Mandatory Arbitration Court is called when all forms of negotiation failed. In this case, the decision rendered by the Arbitration Court, made up of professionals from the...
13 October 2009
United Kingdom: Tories’ social agenda bothers unions
Outsourcing. “There will have to be cutbacks in public spending, and that will be painful. We will need to confront Britain’s culture of irresponsibility and that will be hard to take for many...
12 October 2009
Italy: the general strike organized by the Fiom didn’t block negotiations for the renewal of metalworkers’ CCN
In a speech given during the demonstration organized in Milan on October 9, concluding the strike aimed at “defending the national collective agreement and democracy and against layoffs and...
12 October 2009
EU: governments and social partners face the challenges of the green economy
Institutional and political
diversity. At the
level of the Member States, the political and institutional resources developed
are different. Most countries created green government departments...
12 October 2009
Netherlands: employers liable for burnout
This is a major victory for the FNV: the Court of Appeal of Bois-le-Duc ruled that an employer was liable for overworking one of its employees, insofar as there was no active policy for the...
9 October 2009
Italy: first “Charter for equal opportunities and parity at work”
Diversity as a key to competitiveness and success. Directly based on French and German initiatives, the “Charter for equal opportunities and parity at work” (Carta per le pari opportunità e...
9 October 2009
Netherlands: emergency measures to protect mailmen
New businesses working on the Dutch postal market (Sandd, Selektmail and others) are going to have to meet several requirements. First, they have to sign a labor contract with their employees...
8 October 2009
Spain: paternity leave extended to four weeks in 2011
The only change introduced by the new law is an extension of the paternity leave paid by the social security. At the moment, the social security benefit has a limited duration of 13 days (15 days...
8 October 2009
Germany: Ver.di union threatens to strike if negotiations with the Deutsche Post fail
Bonus in exchange for working time increase. For the management, there is no alternative to reducing personnel costs to face structural problems (increase in electronic exchanges) and economic...
8 October 2009
Spain: employers and union organizations reopen dialog to unfreeze collective bargaining
The technical negotiators of the CEOE and Cepyme employers’ confederations and of the Workers’ Commission’s and UGT union federations created a joint workgroup (two representatives per union and...
8 October 2009
Morocco: interview of Jamal Belahrach, chairman of the Committee on Employment and Social Relations at the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises
The goal is to build dialog with unions and no longer tripartite dialog with the government, which we used to do until now. We will discuss the problems faced by businesses and the labor code in...
8 October 2009
Italy: independent unions specify the profile of the future “Italian confederation of basic unions”
“The union we need.” This was the slogan of the national assembly convened by the main independent unions which signed the “basic pact”: RdB, SdL Intercategoriale, Snater, Cub Informazione, Flaica...
7 October 2009
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
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France: Cabinet adopts pay transparency bill
After several months of delay beyond the European deadline of 7 June 2026, French Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou finally presented the bill transposing the Pay Transparency Directive to the...
10 September 2026
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Germany: IG Metall demands 5% pay rise amid severe pressure
Despite the crisis hitting the automotive industry, the leadership of the German trade union IG Metall announced on Wednesday 23 September that it would be asking for a 5% pay increase as well as...
23 September 2026
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Spain: government revisits its draft decree on salary transparency
The Spanish Ministry of Labour has opened a consultation on the transposition of the European directive on salary transparency and the reduction of the gender pay gap. This decision follows a...
8 September 2026
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EU: Commission proposes a list of worker-related criteria for public procurement
The news. On 9 September, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation aimed at unifying European public procurement law, which accounts for 15% of European GDP. It is notably set...
17 September 2026
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Spain: approval of decree on employees’ right to clear information on working conditions
The Spanish government validated, on September 8 in the Council of Ministers, the decree transposing the European directive on transparent and predictable working conditions. This text requires...
9 September 2026
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France: bioMérieux strengthens its end-of-career support measures
The news. In vitro diagnostic specialist bioMérieux (4,400 employees in France) and unions CFDT, CFE-CGC, and CGT signed a new agreement on June 18, 2026, dedicated to end-of-career...
10 September 2026